Word: ecuador
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...announce that a peaceful solution of the Ethiopian affair will be arrived at any day. The gentlemen at Geneva can continue to vote drastic economic sanctions, by which the whole world is supposed to close its doors to Italy, while sanctions are actually adopted by such prolific producers as Ecuador and Spain...
...Galapagos (literally Great Tortoise and pronounced Galapagos) Islands lie on the Equator about 500 miles due west of Ecuador to which country they belong. Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...
...League defenders had victories to claim. The 15th Assembly was most successful as a membership drive. After much preliminary palaver Red Russia was given the right hand of capitalist fellowship (TIME, Oct. 1). And just before adjournment Afghanistan and Ecuador became 59th and 60th nations to join the fold. That left only two potent countries outside the League: Brazil and the U. S., with Japan and Germany withdrawn...
...theory small countries like Afghanistan and Ecuador must pay anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 dues each year for the privilege of being League members. In his speech of acceptance Gonzalo Zaldumbide, Ecuador's Minister to Switzerland, ingenuously admitted that the reason his country had delayed so long accepting the League's invitation was that his country wanted to be sure it was going to be worth the money...
...From Ecuador, Mr. Young's brother Paul, missionary of the Christian Missionary Alliance, wrote: "Six or eight Indians showed a desire to follow the Lord and we prayed with them. Some of them made beginnings but had been pulled down by sin. Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . . I shot [gas] at the soldiers but they were able to stand the gas and get at me. I then shot the grenade in a room and asked the men to go in. This...